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Definition: Magniloquent |
MagniloquentAdjective1. Lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "magniloquent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Etymology: Magniloquent \Mag*nil"o*quent\, adjective. [Latin expression magnus great loquens, -entis, present participle of loqui to speak. See Magnitude, Loquacious.]. (references) |
Synonyms: MagniloquentSynonyms: grandiloquent (adj), tall (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Adjective: boasting; Verb: magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious; (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle. |
Ornament | Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Magniloquent |
| English words defined with "magniloquent": Gigantesque ♦ Magniloquous. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "magniloquent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fjalëmadh (grandiloquent, talker). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | велеречив, високопарен (heroic, rotund, sonorous, swollen, tub-thumping, turgid), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity). (various references) | |
Czech | přepjatost. (various references) | |
French | ronflant. (various references) | |
German | hochtrabend (grandiloquent, highfalutin, high-falutin, inflated, overblown, pompous, pretentious, rotund, turgid). (various references) | |
Greek | μεγαλορρήμωνασ, μεγαλορρήμων, πομπώδησ (bombastic, consequential, flatus, grandiloquence, grandiose, highfaluting, pompous, splurge, stilted, turgid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kétkedő (doubter, dubious, incredulous), fellengzős (bombast, pompous, ranting, rotund). (various references) | |
Italian | magniloquente (grandiloquent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agniloquentmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jactancioso (vainglorious, windy), grandiloquente (rotund), enfático (emphatic, pompous, puffed-up). (various references) | |
Romanian | pompos (emphatic, exaggerative, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-sounding, important, large, pompous, state, stilted, swollen, theatrical, tumid), grandilocvent (grandiloquent), bombastic (baggy, bombastic, bombastically, declamatory, emphatic, exaggerative, flamboyant, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-blown, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, inflated, mouthy, plethoric, puffy, rotund, stilted, turgid). (various references) | |
Russian | высокопарный (altisonant, grandiloquent, heroic, high-flown, spread eagle, turgid). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji kitnjasto govori. (various references) | |
Spanish | magnilocuente, grandilocuente (grandiloquent). (various references) | |
Swedish | högtravande (declamatory, high-flown, sounding, stilted). (various references) | |
Turkish | mübâlâğalı, büyük (almighty, ample, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great, great-, handsome, healthy, high, keen, large, large scale, long, macro-, major, mega-, megalo-, mighty, no end, no end of, older, out, precious, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing, wide), abartılı (dithyrambic, exaggerated, fond, fustian, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, inflated, ornate, overdone, puffy, slobbery, spread eagle, stagey, stagy, steep, swelling, tall, theatrical, turgescent, turgid, well-rounded). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пихатий (arrogant, assuming, bloated, cavalier, cockish, conceited, foppish, haughty, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-hearted, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, overweening, portentous, puffed up, ritzy, self-important, side, solemn, vain), пишномовний (altisonant, baggy, declamatory, exaggerative, gorgeous, grandiloquent, heroic, mannered, opulent, ornate, orotund, ossianic, puffy, rhetorical, stilted, turgid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hay khoe khoang, hay khoác lác. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "magniloquent": magniloquently. (additional references) | |
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"Magniloquent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: magniloquently. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "magniloquent" (pronounced 'Mag*nil"o*quent'): Altiloquent, grandiloquent, inconsequent, infrequent, Melliloquent, Obsequent, Overfrequent, Pauciloquent, Polyloquent, Sanctiloquent, Stultiloquent, Suaviloquent, subsequent, Veriloquent. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-m-n-n-o-q-t-u" | |
-3 letters: alignment, amounting, emulating, emulation, glutamine, lamenting, melatonin. | |
-4 letters: equaling, equating, equation, gantline, gelation, gunmetal, latening, legation, ligament, longtime, lunation, magneton, mangonel, mannitol, mantling, metaling, moulting, mountain, mounting, multiage, negation, nominate, nonequal, nonguilt, nonimage, nonmetal, noumenal, quantile, quanting, quantong, tegminal, tegumina, umangite, ungenial, unmingle, unmolten, untangle. | |
-5 letters: agnomen, ailment, aliment, aliquot, alumine, alunite, amniote. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-m-n-n-o-q-t-u" | |
+2 letters: magniloquently. | |
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